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Interesting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries.
by dynamic_sausage 8y ago
Interesting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries. The only one visible is OED 2nd edition. I had no idea OED was ever available for dictd...
- bodhiandphysics 8y agoHe's not using unix... it's a plan 9 system, and there's no dictd in plan 9...
- jxy 8y agoDennis Ritchie explained that it is Plan 9 CPU server in drawterm. You can find a list of dictionaries available on Plan 9 inside Bell Lab at https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/7524062cfa4689019a4ed6fc22500ec209522ef0/sys/src/cmd/dict/utils.c#L6 https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/7524062cfa4689019a4ed6f... Unfortunately only "pgw" and "roget" are publicly available. The rest are likely died under the onslaught of copyright.
- billfruit 8y agoBut I have never heard of OED2 being any time available as a dictionary under any Unix, that is for the general public.